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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - Close-Up

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Shots taken of a subject between 3 inches and 1 foot (7.5 to 30cm) in size (e.g. large fish or diver head) that dominates the frame - any background is incidental and occupies LESS THAN 50% of frame

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needles and pins by Marc Van Den Broeck
needles and pins
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date posted posted: Monday, April 24, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Landlord (: by Taner Atilgan
Landlord (:
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date posted posted: Monday, April 24, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Robust ghost pipefish backlit. by Mehmet Salih Bilal
Robust ghost pipefish backlit.
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 23, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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The Purple Fire by Violet Ting
The Purple Fire
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26 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 23, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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redhair by Marc Van Den Broeck
redhair
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 23, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Anemone enjoying the darkness and surge on Hakskeen Reef. by Gemma Dry
Anemone enjoying the darkness and surge on Hakskeen Reef.
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Cool looking Cowfish in Anilao, Philippines by Norm Vexler
Cool looking Cowfish in Anilao, Philippines
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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eye of the stonefish by Pieter Firlefyn
eye of the stonefish
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Big mouth by Doris Vierkötter
Big mouth
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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candy by Marc Van Den Broeck
candy
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date posted posted: Friday, April 21, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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S C A R L E T Freckled frogfish (Scarlet frogfish) - Som... by Irwin Ang
S C A R L E T
Freckled frogfish (Scarlet frogfish) - Sommersprossen anglerfisch/Antennatus coccineus
Tulamben, Indonesia.
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Goby And my Bubbles Location: Anilao Batangas Camera:... by Songda Cai
Goby And my Bubbles
Location: Anilao Batangas
Camera: Canon 5D Mark IV
Lens: EF100mmMacro Lens
Housing: Seacam
Strobes: Seacam Flash 150
Settings: 1/200 ,F19 iso 400
Rgblue 02
Retra LSD
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Great lighting and focus, the expression in the gobys face is priceless
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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At home in a shell. A Coconut Octopus emerges from the sa... by Marc Damant
At home in a shell. A Coconut Octopus emerges from the sand in its home a shell in two halves.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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A small fish hide itself into the bottle.. by Hakan Basar
A small fish hide itself into the bottle..
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Nudibranch taken with a snoot by Lionel Lim
Nudibranch taken with a snoot
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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waving by Marc Van Den Broeck
waving
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Clownfish by Pieter Firlefyn
Clownfish
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Q U A C K Donald Duck Shrimp (Leander plumosus by Irwin Ang
Q U A C K
Donald Duck Shrimp (Leander plumosus
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date posted posted: Monday, April 17, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Porcelain crab on anemon by Hakan Basar
Porcelain crab on anemon
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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LOOK UP AT NIGHT by Tianhong Wang
LOOK UP AT NIGHT
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24 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Mantis Shrimp photographed in Anilao, Philippines by Norm Vexler
Mantis Shrimp photographed in Anilao, Philippines
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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B & W Thorny/Spiny seahorse (Hippocampus histrix) Anila... by Irwin Ang
B & W
Thorny/Spiny seahorse (Hippocampus histrix)
Anilao, Philippines. June 2016
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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A common Cape Town fish found often in rock pools and sha... by Kerri Keet
A common Cape Town fish found often in rock pools and shallow waters, affectionately known as a "klipvis", which is Afrikaans for "stonefish". They are extroverted fish that like to inspect you closely and their reflections in your port.
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date posted posted: Friday, April 14, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Babysitting @Anilao by Julian Hsu
Babysitting
@Anilao
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date posted posted: Friday, April 14, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Lonely Location :Mactan Island Philippines Canon 5dsr ... by Yung Sen Wu
Lonely
Location :Mactan Island Philippines
Canon 5dsr
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM Lens: F22, 1/200, ISO 100
SEACAM silver CANON EOS5D MKIII
SEACAM SEAFLASH 150 DIGITAL
RETRA LSD
Nauticam SMC-1
Howshot M50 Video Light 5000/Lumen
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 13, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Taiwan
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Pygmy Pipehorse (bad hair day) by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Pygmy Pipehorse (bad hair day)
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12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 13, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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Eye of the Beholder. a Close up shot of an Adult sized Se... by Shane Hermans
Eye of the Beholder. a Close up shot of an Adult sized Sepia apama found beneath Busselton Jetty, Western Australia. Night dive.
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 13, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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